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When Your Teen Is Struggling: Real Hope and Practical Help for Parents Today

5 reviews
Mark Gregston

Harvest House Publishers, 2007

Read about struggling teams to gain hope
If the world of advice for parents of teenagers is a vast ocean, then Mark Gregston's book, When Your Teen Is Struggling, is an island that rises above. At two hundred pages, it's small enough to be read in a few sittings, but don't let the size fool you. The book is packed with useful insights into the lives of troubled teens, giving parents a solid understanding of potential problems and ...

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

17 reviews
Allison Bottke

Harvest House Publishers, 2008

Fantastic guide to stop enabling your children
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children by Allison Bottke is an empowering book about letting your children go. Bottke's story is sad, and all too familiar to a lot of parents. Her adult son was addicted to drugs and has done multiple stints in prison and rehab. She cleaned up his mistakes, helped him get on his feet numerous times, and in return, he was verbally abusive. Bottke provides a ...

Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning

2 reviews
Carol A. Lyons

Heinemann, 2003

Teaching
I thought the book arrived in a timely manner and that it was reieved in good condition.

The Struggling Reader: Interventions That Work
J. David Cooper, David J. Chard, ...

Theory and Practice, 2006

Struggling readers need personalized, focused, and assessment-driven instruction. In other words, they need interventions that work. This resource covers the most important aspects of literacy, oral language, fluency, comprehension, and writing. 208 pages. 8-1?2" x 11".

Parenting a Struggling Reader

7 reviews
Susan Hall, Louisa Moats

Broadway, 2002

Parenting a Struggling Reader
If you are parent with a child who is struggling with reading, you will find this book most helpful. It is filled with step-by-step advice on how to go about helping your child. Sitting back helplessly watching your child fall further and further behind while the school system evaluates and proceeds at a snail's pace is a highly frustrating experience. This book gives you the courage to ...

Helping the Struggling Adolescent : A Guide to Thirty-six Common Problems for Counselors, Pastors and Youth ...

9 reviews
Les Parrott III

Zondervan, 2000

A must have for anyone working with youth!
I have been in youth ministry for nine years and this is the best comprehensive book I have for youth in crisis. It deals with every imaganable problem young people are facing and uses sound biblical, theological and sosiological information on how best to help as a youth pastor or youth leader. As a matter of fact I don't even know where the text is right now because it is in such high demand ...

Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Research-Based Guide to Instructional Programs and ...
Donald D. Deshler; Annemarie SullivanPalincsar; Gina Biancarosa; and Marnie Nair

Intl Reading Assn, 2007

This comprehensive resource arms classroom teachers and administrators with information to meet today s adolescent literacy challenges. In Part I, the authors highlight research on what works with adolescent learners and discuss how to implement instructional programs to fit the unique needs of your school or district. Part II presents a directory of more than 40 programs designed for middle and secondary students. Each program description ...

Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers: Grades 6-8: 80 High-Interest/Low-Readability Passages With ...

5 reviews

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007

Great Skills and Activities
As a teacher I'm always looking for supplemented activities, to reinforce language arts skills. This book not only has helped my students with reinforcing comprehension skills but has also given them great activities that not only follow up with what has been read but also personalizes the reading of the passages.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition) (What Really ...

14 reviews
Richard L. Allington

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

Excellent, research-based, trustworthy.
Dr. Richard Allington continues to provide a research-based perspective that goes beyond the quick fixes, commercial-for-profit programs, and the political rhetoric of the day. If you really want to understand reading and learn a variety of research-based strategies that can be used to enhance reading, this is the book for you. There are plenty of practical strategies for teachers as well as ...

Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers: Strategies for Classroom Intervention, 3-6
Dorothy S. Strickland, Kathy Ganske, ...

Stenhouse Publishers, 2001

For most students, the intermediate years provide the last opportunity to prevent continued failure in reading and writing. These years are a critical bridge to the middle grades where the tendency is to be less personalized and focused on individual needs. Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers provides teachers, administrators, and staff developers with the best research-based practice on the literacy learning and teaching of low-achieving ...

Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers

1 review
Julie M. Wood

Heinemann, 2004

Literacy Online: New Tools for Struggling Readers and Writers
This book is an excellent resource for aspiring teachers. Wood provides very valuable insight into the world of technology and the ways in which teachers can creatively and thoughtfully integrate it into the Language Arts curriculum framework. The suggestions are clever, fun, and engaging for writing students with various skill levels, and teachers with all experience levels.

Reading Success for Struggling Adolescent Learners (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

The Guilford Press, 2008

Comprehensive, up to date, and highly practical, this volume discusses factors that affect struggling readers in grades 7-12 and provides research-based strategies for improving their reading and writing skills. Chapters from leading authorities examine why some adolescents have trouble achieving reading proficiency, describe schoolwide policies and programs that support literacy, and suggest age-appropriate classroom practices for promoting ...

A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers, K-5 (Workshop Help Desk)
M. Colleen Cruz, Lucy Calkins

FirstHand, 2008

In A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers Colleen Cruz shows how to stop struggling with writers who struggle. You'll find effective support for students who say: I'm not a good writer; My hand hurts; I don't know how to spell; I don't have anything to write about; I never get to write anything I want to write; I'm done. A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers is part of the Workshop Help Desk series. About the ...

Middle School Literacy Centers: Connecting Struggling Readers to Literature
Lynette Prevatte

Maupin House Publishing, 2007

Turn your struggling readers into successful readers with literacy centers created especially for middle-school students. This easy-to-use resource provides teacher directions, student directions, and reproducibles for forty center activities structured around the Big Ten areas of reading that all students must master: main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, literature terms, fact and ...

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century
Char Hiroshi Garrett

University of California Press, 2008

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres--including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music--and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, ...

Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully: Solutions for Reaching Struggling Learners

3 reviews

Paul H Brookes Pub Co, 2007

Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully
Findings from research studies in the United States (Badian, 1983), Norway (Ostad, 1998), Israel (Gross-Tsur, Manor, & Shalev, 1996), and Europe (Kosc, 1974) have shown that 5% to 8% of school-age children exhibit some form of mathematics disabilities and long-term problems associated with mathematics difficulties (Geary, 2004; Griffin & Case, 1997). With many of these students, reading ...

Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam

15 reviews
Jeffrey Lang

Amana Publications, 2000

recommended reading
very enlightening and recognizable - this man has really searched the answers in a very honest way, honouring his inquisitive mind so as to be fully rewarded with the answers he ended up with

Struggling With Scripture

5 reviews
Walter Brueggemann, William C. Placher, ...

Westminster John Knox Press, 2002

Breath of fresh air
This is a good read, I would not suggest is a quick read. The authors are biblical scholars in their right (Brueggmann, Placher and Blount) and they give the reader food for thought. The book will challenge your thinking and maybe the way you look at the world. Don't read it if you are not honest with your struggle.

Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners

4 reviews
Craig Pohlman

Jossey-Bass, 2007

What a wonderful resource!
Revealing Minds offers educators a new way of looking at assessment which has been sorely needed in the field for too long. There are so many struggling students who are misunderstood and would benefit from the insights offered by Dr. Pohlman. It is very well-written and accessible - parents also would learn a great deal from this user-friendly book.

Teaching Struggling and At-Risk Readers: A Direct Instruction Approach

1 review
Douglas W. Carnine, Jerry Silbert, ...

Prentice Hall, 2005

THE book to have ....for your high achievers too!
If you know of Direct Instruction and the powerful research behind it, you'll know how fabulous this book is....not only b/c it's DI, but because it's written by some of the best of the best. If you don't have any knowledge or experience with Direct Instruction or it's programs....imagine this....the authors of this book are delineating the best strategies for teaching your students so that the ...

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